It’s that time of year again! While it seems like we’re still soaking in some of the great learnings from SXSW 2015, it’s already time to pick panels for the annual event, coming up in March of 2016. PanelPicker voting opens today, and Discovery has a slew of great panels in the running across SXSWedu and SXSW Interactive. Check out the links below to take a look at the proposed panels…
On Monday, Discovery Education announced its new Discovery Education Science Techbook™ aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Designed specifically to help teachers transition to the NGSS framework, the Techbook is the latest addition to Discovery Education’s portfolio of award-winning digital textbooks. The new NGSS-aligned Science Techbook fully supports the instructional shifts required by the new standards, embraces the philosophy of three-dimensional learning and is designed to help educators adapt their…
Tomorrow, March 26 at 1pm EST, Discovery Education and Ford’s Theatre will host a live, interactive virtual field trip for students nationwide commemorating the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The field trip will be hosted by Discovery Education’s Kyle Schutt and will feature expert insight from two of Ford’s Theatre teaching artists, Thembi Duncan and Stephen F. Schmidt. Students will learn about America at the time of Lincoln’s death,…
Last week, Cox Communications and Discovery Communications partnered to host an exciting, two part event focused on how modern digital learning environments, powered by broadband, can improve student achievement. The event was held in partnership with Arizona’s Scottsdale Unified School District and Paradise Valley Unified School District and open to Phoenix-area educators, students, families and community members. The day began with an immersive, professional development opportunity for 100 educators in…
Last week, Discovery Education partnered with one of Texas’ biggest school systems, Grand Prairie Independent School District (GPISD) to deliver the largest professional development event in the school system’s history. The two-day intensive training, delivered by nearly 100 of Discovery Education’s professional development specialists, prepared almost 2,000 GPISD teachers and administrators to transform their classrooms into digital learning environments and support the district’s goal of ensuring student success through engaging…
On Thursday, Discovery Education opened its doors to thousands of educational leaders for the first Future@NOW: Transition to Digital Classrooms international conference. The event, hosted at One Discovery Place, also was streamed live to more than 1,600 sites nationwide, and featured many influential leaders, including Discovery Founder and Chairman John Hendricks as well as Senior Democratic Member on the House Education and Workforce Committee, George Miller (D-CA). At the event, Discovery…
2013 has been a year of exciting milestones for Discovery Education, with the expansion of techbook offerings, the recent Beyond Textbooks event, and now, the inaugural Future@NOW: Transition to Digital Classrooms conference. Today, Discovery Education and Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to spur innovation in education, in conjunction with many other leading education organizations, will launch this new conference at Discovery’s Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD to discuss one of the…
It’s that time of year again! When I ventured out yesterday for my morning commute and was greeted by the adorable sight of D.C. school children boarding the bus in their uniforms, it became official: summer is over and it’s back to school time. Discovery Education and Intel Corporation are heading back to the classroom too, as they announced today the expansion of their Curiosity in the Classroom partnership. The program, an…
Today’s guest post on Discovery Blog is from Bill Goodwyn, President of Global Distribution and CEO of Discovery Education at Discovery Communications. On February 1, 2012, Digital Learning Day, Secretary Duncan and Chairman Genachowski challenged the country to complete the conversion from print textbooks to interactive digital learning within five years. Yesterday, Secretary Duncan and Chairman Genachowski took the courageous next step of assembling the CEOs from the top 15…